Foreword / by Tim Bontemps -- Introduction -- An Introductory Note on Data and Context -- What Basketball Analytics Is Not -- Speaking the Dialect: Basketball Stats as Language -- Credit Where It's Due -- Goodhart's Law: On Playing the Drill -- But Who's Counting? -- Evidence of Things Not Seen: Impacts Behind the Box Score -- Mind the Cap: Player Value and Roster Construction -- The Midrange Theory -- Chasing Ghosts: Evaluating Defense -- Two for One and Other Trivialities: The Little Things -- The 82 and The 16: Playoff Game Theory -- The Practice of NBA Analytics -- Trying to Do the Impossible Well: The Many Pitfalls of the NBA Draft -- Next?